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Topic: Web browser, A new lightweight web browser?

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Posted: May 30 2007,01:48

In my experience, Opera has always been my choice. It loads significantly faster than FF, and seemed to crash less with many things open -- and it worked much better on my p1 with 28mb ram [DSL 1.x frugal]. However, these are not comparable to light-weight browsers in terms of consumption.

The limitations on light-weight browsers brings to me to believe the main reason why FF was included in DSL in the first place is that accurate modern web browsing is a big priority despite the costs. Perhaps embedded versions of Opera, etc. should also be released for the PC platform as a lite version (not sure about their capabilities though)?

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Posted: May 30 2007,05:06

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ May 29 2007,21:48)

The limitations on light-weight browsers brings to me to believe the main reason why FF was included in DSL in the first place is that accurate modern web browsing is a big priority despite the costs.

I was unable to get Opera to work correctly with TradeKing's data download feature; selections would disappear before you could click on them. Quirks at other sites are noted on their support forum. Web support generally amounts to telling you that their site requires the latest version of IE.

I haven't found anything IE does that FF doesn't do better. I click on my efficient Web Browser (Dillo) only to reread basic DSL info (usually after Mikshaw chastises some transgressor*).

* like the guy who wanted to know how to get rid of his Dillo popup, which tells how to get rid of it.

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Posted: May 30 2007,07:24

I'm also an Opera fan. 9.2 is the newest, probably a lot better than FF, and still smaller space requirement than FF 1.0.3...

But it also isn't "light"..

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Posted: May 30 2007,18:36

Yea... there are some sites that I used to not be able to access, but after opera 9 came out, more worked (those other sites I would load in FF). However, I have even encountered site problems in FF, and it seems Konquerer was only able to render them (or IE I would assume). Different versions will always change this outcome. In any case, designing a web browser sure looks complicated, or else someone would've made what mikshaw wants by now